Improvement in household implements



THOMAS GARRiCK. Improvement in Household Implements. -No. 114,665. PatentedMay 9,187

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Letters Patent No. 114,685, dated May 9, 1371,

IMPROVEMENT m HOUSEHOLD IMPLEMENTS.

the Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent andmaklng part of the lame.

I, Tnoms Grammar, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain Improvements in a Household Implement,

of which thefollowing is aspecification, reference be ing had to the accompanying drawing making part of the same, in which is shown a perspective view of said improved implement.

, My'said invention relates to'the combination and arrangement of a number of useful tools in one implement,in convenient form for general purposes in the household, "&c., and is an improvement of the household implement heretofore patented by me under date ofJune' 29, 1869, and of the same general construction. As shown in the drawing, however, it contains some important changes from thcconstruction set forth in the original patent, and may be described as follows:

The implement, as heretofore, is of the general form of apair ofpinchers, one handle of which is put through and worlrsin the slot or eye in the otherv handle, and is adjusted to difi'erent positions therein by means of a tooth' or projection in the slot, which engages with one of the series of eth on the other handle.

in the constrnctio shown in the drawing are combined the following tools, viz.: a hammer, 1, a nail- 'puller, 2, a cover-lifter, 3, a scraper, 4, apair of pinchers, 5and 6, which also form an adj ustable wrench,

gas-burner tongs, 7, a nut-crackerv and cork-presser, 8 and 9, a six-inch rule; 10, a screwdriver, 11, a boxopener, 12, and a carpet-stretcher, 13, all in form for use.

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I claim- The improved implement, containing the several tools enumerated in combination, as shown and described, as a new article of manufacture.

THOMAS GARRIOK.

Witnesses:

DAVID HEATON, Isaac A. BUNNELL. 

